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Peter Nguyen

Global warming poses most immediate threat to tropics, study finds - latimes.com - 0 views

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    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Will this be the cause of animal extinction? I think global warming could affect animals more than humans
  • Polar bears and penguins are usually the first creatures that come to mind when considering the likely victims of global warming
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Wow, this is interesting. Why would underwater creatures be affected first? I was shocked when I read this
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  • but a new study finds that fish, coral and other inhabitants of the tropics will be the first to take the brunt of climate change.
  • forced to cope with temperatures beyond their historical range in perhaps 15 years, a new climate analysis concludes.
  • animals in areas closest to the equator will be forced to cope with temperatures that are outside their historical range in as little as about 15 years.
  • animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable
  • Conditions in the tropics stay in a narrower range than in other places on the planet, so it takes a smaller shift to put creatures in peril
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      So forest life could be gone forever and extinct? Might that lead to global hunger?
  • substantially different climate by 2047 if human beings continue to do little to rein in emissions of heat-trapping gases
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Are the poison gasses part of the emissions? 
  • Los Angeles will see permanent changes to its climate by 2048
  • Washington's climate will change radically by 2047 if the world continues on its current course
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      With the hot humid zone in Vietnam, what will global warming do to us?
  • considerable threat to thousands of plant and animal species that will have to move, adapt or face extinction
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      I knew this could lead to extinction! Without plant life, how will the environment be affected? Mainly, without plant life will humans survive or move into another planet?
  • face grave disruptions as well, from agriculture to water security to public health
  • "The optimistic way to look at this is that taking steps to reduce emissions is buying us time — for species to adapt, for human societies to change and to come up with technological advancements,"
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      I would think around this time, we would have already have come up with flying cars and life spans. What can future scientists do to turn global warming around?
  • great temperature increases expected in the Arctic.
  • first to experience unprecedented temperature changes surprised scientists who weren't involved in the research.
  • greatest variety of life and biodiversity and the poorest people in world live in the tropics, and the new climate shifts will be outside their parents' and grandparents' experience."
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Wouldn't part of Africa be affected? They live around forests and desserts!
  • fewer opportunities for plants and animals to do that
  • Given that, there's a very, very severe worry about what this will do to species in the tropics,"
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      I would believe that animal extinction would mostly occur. Then we can't eat meat anymore. Veggies for life until plant life is extinct. Might it turn into cannibalism?
  • animals with shorter life spans will have more generations pass through a given time period
  • gives them more chances to evolve and adapt to new conditions.
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 23 Oct 13
       
      So anything closest to the Equator could be affected the most?
    • Peter Nguyen
      Peter Nguyen on 23 Oct 13
       
      Will the polar ice caps be affected by melting? How will living things survive?
Nirat Singh Rajpal

Global warming poses most immediate threat to tropics, study finds - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • Although organisms all over the world will have to find ways to adapt to higher temperatures, animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable, researchers said. Conditions in the tropics stay in a narrower range than in other places on the planet, so it takes a smaller shift to put creatures in peril, said biologist Eric Post, director of the Polar Center at Penn State.
    • Nirat Singh Rajpal
      Nirat Singh Rajpal on 21 Oct 13
       
      Could this make some animals extinct?
  • "The optimistic way to look at this is that taking steps to reduce emissions is buying us time — for species to adapt, for human societies to change and to come up with technological advancements," said study coauthor Abby Frazier, also a graduate student in geography at the University of Hawaii. "It lets us put on the brakes. If you were about to get into an accident, wouldn't you want it to happen at 20 mph rather than 80?"
Sierra Ross

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  • Washington's climate will change radically by 2047 if the world continues on its current course. If serio
  • face extinction,
  • The past is no longer prologue.
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  • The greatest variety of life and biodiversity and the poorest people in world live in the tropics
Cynthia Chao

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  • f serious climate action is taken soon, the change would be delayed until 2071.
Nirat Singh Rajpal

Global warming poses most immediate threat to tropics, study finds - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • animals in the tropics are particularly vulnerable, researchers said. Conditions in the tropics stay in a narrower range than in other places on the planet, so it takes a smaller shift to put creatures in peril,
    • Nirat Singh Rajpal
      Nirat Singh Rajpal on 23 Oct 13
       
      Could this make some animals extinct?
  • The team also examined conditions for 54,000 locations around the world. Under a business-as-usual scenario, Los Angeles will see permanent changes to its climate by 2048. If strong measures were taken to curb emissions, Angelenos would have an extra 31 years to adapt, the study found.
    • Nirat Singh Rajpal
      Nirat Singh Rajpal on 23 Oct 13
       
      I don't understand this part
  • But in the tropics, there are far fewer opportunities for plants and animals to do that, Pimm said.
    • Nirat Singh Rajpal
      Nirat Singh Rajpal on 23 Oct 13
       
      Why can't the animals and plant from the tropics move to cooler latitudes.
Dao Nguyen

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  • global warming
  • n areas closest to the equator will be forced to cope with temperatures that are outsid
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Does cope in this situation means that animals have to suffer from a climate changed that they never experienced before? For example polar bear would trying to survive with hot weather?
  • e their historical range in as little as about 15 years.
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  • The average location on Earth could experience a substantially different climate by 2047
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      Is global warming the only problem that is causing this problem?
  • animals i
  • adapt to higher temperatures
  • Los Angeles will see permanent changes to its climate by 2048.
  • curb emissions
  • Washington's climate will change radically by 2047
  • The shift to consistently warmer temperatures poses a considerable threat to thousands of plant and animal species that will have to move, adapt or face extinction, experts warn.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      How could we change that from happening?
  • to reduce emissions is buying us time
  • species to adapt, for human societies to change and to come up with technological advancements,
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      I wonder if we do have enough time. What would happen to the world after?
  • tropics would be first to experience unprecedented temperature changes surprised scientists who weren't involved in the research.
  • 344,000 species around the world. Some are better equipped than others to adapt to new climate conditions.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 22 Oct 13
       
      I picture this world to be much emptier and less excitement with less discovery in the next few ten years. 
  • far fewer opportunities for plants and animals
  • animals with shorter life spans will have more generations pass through a given time period,
Lam-Vi Ngo

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  • The new minimum temperature of the future is the old maximum temperature of the past
  • reducing greenhouse gases,
  • "The past is no longer prologue."
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  • tropics
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ? - Why the tropics?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      *! - I never knew they would record from that early.
  • 150 years
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ! - I thought the poles will be affected first. I think it's because where the sun hits most.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      R - Reminds me of how humans are surviving, we're doing things that cause even more global warming and we don't really regret it until we've lost it.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ? - What changes will happen? What can we do to stop global warming?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      *? - Why won't people stop these things like greenhouse gases?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      * - If we don't do anything, by 1048, the changes in global warming will be permanent.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ? - Will there ever be a global cooling?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      I think there will be more plant species that will adapt to the heat.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ! - They can't really stop it from happening? Only slowing the rate down?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      * - The places near the equator will get hotter.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      ? - If this keeps on going on, will there be snow in the future?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 28 Oct 13
       
      * - I wonder if those animals had ancestors that lived in hot and humid temperatures before. If they did, would it help them adapt?
  • Conditions in the tropics stay in a narrower range than in other places on the planet,
  • extra 31 years to adapt
  • change would be delayed until 2071.
Joshua Lim

Global warming poses most immediate threat to tropics, study finds - latimes.com - 0 views

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      Joshua Lim on 23 Oct 13
       
      C: That's a relieve
  • "The optimistic way to look at this is that taking steps to reduce emissions is buying us time
    • Joshua Lim
      Joshua Lim on 23 Oct 13
       
      So the big picture here is that we can't avoid this, this is basically the end of our world?
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  • substantially
  • "The new minimum temperature of the future is the old maximum temperature of the past,"
    • Joshua Lim
      Joshua Lim on 24 Oct 13
       
      That's a funky quote
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